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  1. Robin R Probyn
    ok thanks.. I always keep headroom very tight.. maybe thats why I worry.. its the first I,ll notice, is too much head room.. even a little bit just looks bad and smacks of not really knowing what your doing.. unless its a style and the head room is huge..or to incorporate some background.. but you know what i mean.. that gap thats just too big.. but only by a small margin.. pet hate.. Anyway thanks for your time sir..
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    Thanks.. Yes my camera has the 235 lines.. but then the 16-9 will have too much head room no..? thats why I thought a near to common top frame would be easier for both.. of course I,d rather they went for 2.35.. but seems they want to keep the 16-9.. for future use I suppose..
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    Ok thanks.. but then how do you avoid too much head room in your 16-9 frame.. I know its not huge.. but still could look bad on a tight frame.. ?.. or just frame the head room for 16-9 and go with the slightly tighter 2.35 crop.. What is quarter off set.. Thanks
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    Judging by the calibre of the work.. I can only think the constant moving countries is not doing you any favors .. out of site and out of mind... I guess its why even the top end people have to live near the big work cities.. LA.. London.. NY.. etc and not a small village in the Dordogne.. even if they might really want to and could buy a chateaux ..
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    There was a thread about this recently David Mullens posted on the OP,s question.. but I cant find the thread anywhere .. looking for info on the topic anyway.. Basically shooting normal 16-9.. but with 1-2.35 "fake" anamorphic safe .. to avoid excess head room on the 16-9 frame .. have the top frame common and crop up from the bottom.. I have shot like this before.. but is the best way to keep both frame,s .. how difficult or easy is this in post.. Thanks
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    Or just ask anyone who's,s selling, to have the camera serviced first.. Ive done that before.. and the seller was fine to do so..
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    Eco friendly version.. and doesn't look like a Ken Loach film..
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    Mary Poppins.. ?
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    Plus one for the Aaton.. was way ahead of the SR I and II.. they really did sound like a tractor,although built as tough too.. the Aaton single claw.. hairless gate.. the mag loading .. ergonomics.. the magnetic drive .. lovely camera,s..
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    Yes true.. I would agree from the trailer it does look more than a bit dodgy plot wise.. but that singlet.. sigh..
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    hey thats a great film.. shot by my old mucker Mr Ackroyd.. .. was hard to understand though.. :)... but yes social realism to massive budget sic fi hollywierd epic.. I dont think space ships of the future in these type of films ,have to be "accurate " the whole thing is fantasy ..folks are paying cash to escape reality .. they dont want to sit through 100 mins of a dark, tiny capsule ..might as well question the aerodynamics of the flying cars in Bladerunner.. its a movie :) Did anyone notice the sweaty singlet .. ? if it was good enough for Aliens ..
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    Jennifer Lawrence is sweaty singlet .. this would look on a windup Bolex.. light with an torch.. and people are talking about pixels !
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    I dont think its at all common on professional productions to go beyond 180 .. maybe on a doc once in a blue moon.. where you are struggling for light and there isnt much movement in the shot.. but this isn't common practice at all.. in my experience ..
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    Vintage lenses.. he could have tripled his rate and re shot the whole thing .. :)
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    I read that the F55,with its global shutter was used on steady cam shots .. that seem to have cut in ok with the F65 ,on Cafe Society .. with a DP who is pretty well known for his concerns over the image looking right.... ?
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    Does that happen even with a mechanical shutter..?
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    Well there you go.. problem solved.. I will alert my people on the coast..
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    Ive often thought "film/gate weave" is really the very subtle difference .. even with say an F65 with a mech shutter.. maybe there is some software these days to give totally static digital "gate" images some very slight random movement .. ?
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    United 93 also I believe.. apart from a look.. I think for United 93 and hurt locker it was also about space and ease of hand holding..and the much smaller 10-1 zooms you can put on the camera.. horses for courses.. I dont think either suffered visually.. or Carol with a very different "feel".. I read all the big car chase of Jason Bourne was shot digitally due to the SFX needed.. the second unit rebelled against film .. and also they wanted to see play back.. I shot some of the BTS.. of Jumper.. and it seems Doug Liman has his own little S16 camera and whips it out and does a few shots every now and then.. whether they got used or not is another story :)
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    Yes although they did actually Kill Captain Cook ..but small detail.. :) I go there alot and most native Hawaiian,s are alot more pissed off with the US invasion and occupation of 1893.. but yes I was really surprised to see the Union Jack in their flag..
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    But they have good hats.. :)
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    wasn't the US also ,relatively recently, an extension of the UK.. ..yet I just missed a shoot there due to need/time for an I visa.. its an outrage sir.. questions will be raised in the house I assure you..
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    Yeah thats it.. there is money but its being concentrated back to a very small slither of society .. going back to the Victoria times as far as wealth distribution.. Im no working class hero but its not the polls are lazy or dont accept challenges.. they serve those who put them there.. we live under a capitalist system.. and so pure empirical logic will dictate that for this system to work wealth goes to a very few.. off the back of everyone else.. just economics 101.. while the anarchists ( middle class kids from Bristol Uni) are angry at everyone in Kensington with a BMW.. they ignore the real problem..
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    fair enough..
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    But maybe its meant to be flat,low contrast for a reason.. cant always look like a commercial .. would you say the same about the TV version of Fargo..or even the film come to think of it.. Im very sure this DP could light it in any style if they wanted to.. but a certain look had been agreed .. the lighting should "fit" the mood ,look the director wants.. doesn't always have to jump out the screen with the DP,s agents number in the corner of the frame.. :)
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